A Mother's Basket
It hasn’t been long since the last homeschooling meme. But if you are a book loving mother and would like to join in with another… Read on…
Imogen and Charlotte decided to fill the gaps in Sophie’s education by filling a basket for her, with books they consider essential reading for a ten year old girl. They also put together a basket of books for Gemma-Rose. Then Imogen thought she’d hunt out all her favourite books for Charlotte to share. And I have promised to search the shelves for all my own favourites to pop in a basket for Imogen.
There is something very special about introducing someone to a favourite book. I wonder: Will she like it as much as I do? Will I discover we are kindred spirit book lovers?
All this talk of books made me think: What would I put in my basket of favourite novels? Perhaps I might include some of the following children’s and adult’s books:
Favourite books of my childhood
All books by Noel Streatfeild especially Ballet Shoes and the Gemma series
The Drina ballet series by Jean Estoril
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Favourite books I have enjoyed reading aloud to my children
Benjamin by John O’Neill (I cried! It was difficult to finish reading this one out loud, but the story was worth the tears.)
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Huckleberry Finn and others by Mark Twain
The Switherby Pilgrims and others by Eleanor Spence
The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger and others by Jackie French (I have had to modify certain parts of some of these books as I’ve been reading aloud, but great stories anyway.)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
The Penderwick series by Jeanne Birdswell
Books I am reading aloud at the moment
The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda by Christianna Brand
White Boots by Noel Streatfeild
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Favourite novels I’ve read
The Power and the Glory and
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Number One Lady Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All books by Elizabeth Goudge
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden
Emily’s Hope and
In Name Only by Ellen Gable Hrkach
Novels I have recently enjoyed
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Stealing Jenny by Ellen Gable Hrkach
Novels I am currently reading
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Novels I’d like to read
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
There are so many other books I could include on my lists. This is only a sample. I wonder if you will find some of your old favourites here. Perhaps you will find something new you’d like to read.
Or perhaps you’d like to write your own lists and I will come and visit and share. Perhaps we will discover we are kindred spirits book lovers.